Alan Yang Quotes
There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.
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For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.
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You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.
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There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.
